Dell PowerEdge 2450 Microprocessor Upgrade Installation Guide (.pdf) - Page 6

Rebooting the Server Console redirection is designed to yield control of the serial ports to the operating system. This allows serial debugging and redirection of the operating system to function correctly without interference from the system BIOS. To use console redirection to shut down a system and troubleshoot it or to change small computer system interface (SCSI) BIOS configurations, perform the following steps: 1. Restart the system. See "Configuring Special Keys," found later in this document, for a recommendation on how to do this. 2. When the system begins to reboot, use console redirection to watch and interact with the system during the power-on self-test (POST). While the system is booting, you can do the following: • Enter the system setup program. • Enter the SCSI setup menus. • Run utilities on the utility partition (including Dell Diagnostics and the Resource Configuration Utility ([RCU], if applicable) NOTE: To use console redirection to run utilities on the utility partition, the utility partition must have been created using Dell OpenManage™ Server Assistant version 6.3.1 or later. Configuring Special Keys Console redirection uses ANSI or VT100/220 terminal emulation, which are limited to basic ASCII characters. There are no function keys, arrow keys, or control keys in this character set. However, most BIOS software requires the use of function keys and control keys for ordinary functions. You can emulate a function key or control key by using a special key sequence, called an escape sequence, to represent a specific key. For console redirection, an escape sequence starts with an escape character. This character can be entered in a number of different ways, depending on the requirements of your terminal emulation software. For example, 0x1b, ^[, and all refer to the same escape character. Some terminal software uses predefined macros to send the proper escape sequences. In HyperTerminal, you can define macros by selecting Key Macros from the View menu. Macros can be assigned to almost any possible key for almost any key combination. Create a macro for each of your function keys. Tables 2 and 3 list the escape sequence that must be sent to represent a special key or command. NOTES: When defining macros in HyperTerminal, you must press before to signify that you are sending an escape sequence rather than escaping out of the dialog box. 4 Console Redirection